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Frontispiece from Cherubin's La Dioptrique Oculaire
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London WC2
c.2000?
paper
overall: 254 x 202 mm

Black and white photograph reproducing the frontispiece from an edition (1671) of Cherubin D'Orleans' 'La Dioptrique Oculaire', including an engraving by Edelinck after Le Pautre of angels descending from Heaven bearing telescopes and inviting learned men (surveyor with measuring rod, architect with plan of bastions, soldier with officer's rod, astronomer with astrolabe, doctor with anatomical chart and a painter with brushes and easel) to use them to view the works of the Creator. From the copy in the rare books collection of the British Optical Association Museum and Library. In the background men use telescopes to look out to sea.


2007.951

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